Was heißt »denn« auf Englisch?

Die Konjunktion denn lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • because
  • since#Konjunktion (since)

Synonyme

all­die­weil:
all the while
al­so:
so
therefore
bloß:
bare
da:
there
dann:
then
doch:
but
er­go:
ergo
hence
therefore
thus
ja:
yes
mit­hin:
consequently
therefore
schließ­lich:
after all
eventually
finally
wo:
where
zu­mal:
especially
particularly

Englische Beispielsätze

  • I nearly drowned because of you.

  • It's been a long time since I last saw you.

  • I think that you are stupid because you are speaking nonsense.

  • Laziness is the best of the seven deadly sins, because it hinders you from doing six others.

  • My husband has lost three stone since he fell ill, and his trousers are now all baggy.

  • Things have got weird since you were last here.

  • Things have got much more expensive since you were last here.

  • Things have got much dearer since you were last here.

  • The weather hasn't got any better since yesterday.

  • The craftsman couldn't join the guild because he was Jewish.

  • You'll need to find the key, because I don't have it.

  • You'll need to find the key, because I haven't got it.

  • This sandwich is delicious because of the bread.

  • "He's livened up since you arrived." "No he hasn't, has he?" "Oh, he has. He's got that twinkle in his eye again." "It's a nervous tic." "Hah, no. It's you, definitely."

  • He's livened up since you arrived.

  • The party has livened up since you arrived.

  • You win because the odds are stacked in your favour.

  • In Germany a revolution couldn't occur, because it would require people to walk on the grass.

  • This orphaned English sentence was translated on Tatoeba into 14 languages, but the translator could not adopt it because he is not a native English speaker.

  • When you don't understand something, it's because you don't know the context.

Denn übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: denn. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: denn. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2024, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 12425168, 12422505, 12421695, 12389992, 12388890, 12388836, 12388835, 12388834, 12388833, 12387015, 12379796, 12379795, 12354078, 12354037, 12354035, 12354032, 12349620, 12343688, 12337812 & 12328124. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR